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Lin Haijiang has realized that Germany is the same model as the Chinese Empire, because all its economic capacity is used in the military, so its economy is also very fragile, which determines that Germany and the Chinese Empire must expand outward and rely on war to maintain the domestic economy, but if the surrounding regional environment cannot meet the needs of small-scale wars, then the outbreak of large-scale wars has become inevitable. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Lin Haijiang is most worried now that if the situation in Europe changes, then he will not face the calm Far East, let alone the rich India, that is to face the fatal blow of the greedy polar bear, if once Germany becomes the France of the Napoleonic era, that is to say, Germany becomes the public enemy of Europe, then the Chinese Empire will inevitably be involved in this frenzy of dividing colonies for the last time in history.

Lin Haijiang originally thought that Wilhelm I was far less ambitious and ambitious than Wilhelm II, but now it seems that Wilhelm I's ambitions are no less than those of Wilhelm II, who advocated global strategy in history, and the main reason is that Bismarck, a very strategic and iron-blooded prime minister in Germany, is suppressing Wilhelm I's expansionist ambitions.

However, because Germany won huge benefits in the war against France, and it was ten years earlier than in history, so Germany's domestic was already a little boiling, and just one war made the German economy and people's livelihood have earth-shaking changes, and the German middle class and merchants were not satisfied with ordinary international trade, they began to yearn for colonies, just like the British Indus French North Africa, East Africa, etc., those beautiful gems, gold, diamonds, The Germans' desires began to swell rapidly.

In order to be able to catch up with this last feast in history, Lin Haijiang knew that he was bound to be prepared now, and the domestic attack on the Qing court must not be stopped, he had already issued an order, if the Qing court abandoned Yanjing, then the five army corps deployed in the front line would immediately be put into a full-scale attack, and the Qing court would never be allowed to make major damage to Yanjing, and the combat detachment of the special forces should also do a good job of infiltration, and the production and construction corps and the local ruling system should cooperate with each other to fully protect the life of Yanjing, the supply of production materials.

According to Lin Haijiang's plan, if Yanjing is fully occupied, the first echelon should be led by five corps, the second echelon by three corps, and the new corps composed of two reserves and garrison units as the third receiving echelon, and the marines will be used to land from Liaodong Bay, directly penetrate the vital points of the Qing court, and quickly end the war within the year.

It can be said that all the battle preparation plans drawn up by the General Staff Headquarters have all failed at this moment, because the Qing court has no effective resistance at all, and the iron-clad courtiers of the Qing Dynasty are all handsome men who know the current affairs.

Lin Haijiang knew that the Qing court was likely to give up Yanjing, so he waited, gradually put pressure on the Qing court, and then paralyzed the Qing court while occupying Yanjing at lightning speed, and then attacked the Qing court garrison points on the front line of Shanhaiguan, completely solving the remnants of the Qing court in the northeast and Mongolia.

After nearly a year of renovation, it can be said that the navy of the Chinese Empire has regained its heroic appearance, especially the glorious class heavy cruisers have all been replaced with new steam turbines and large bore pressure gyratory boilers, and the new 260 mm twin naval guns with a caliber of 40 times the body tube, except for the Nanling-class battlecruiser and two Empire-class battleships under construction, Lin Haijiang was very concerned about the specific situation of the firmament-class battleships built by Germany.

For the sake of the two giant ships, Lin Haijiang sent the most capable personnel from China to Germany to participate in the construction and design, including several ship designers who focused on training, and it can be said that the sketches of the firmament class battleships were finally made after more than five months of argumentation.

Due to the escalation of the Civil War on the part of the United States, the empire has sold a total of nine relatively old warships to the south of the United States, these warships were basically ordered in Britain and the Netherlands that year, after a refit, the transformation has lost its basic significance, so Lin Haijiang packaged and sold all these warships to the Southern Union of the United States, including two Glorious-class A-type heavy cruisers with a standard displacement of 7,200 tons, and heavy cruisers with a displacement of three classes A, B, and C of the Glorious-class class. Lin Haijiang felt that if he wanted to sell it, he would sell it to the Americans, and let the northern political axe also burn money to buy big ships from Britain, so that the American civil war could become more and more enjoyable.

For the Imperial Fortress Shipyard and the Guangzhou Shipyard to start the construction of Nanling-class battlecruisers, Lin Haijiang deliberately paid attention to it, for Lin Haijiang, the more warships the better, the empire needs warships, but it does not mean that the empire's finances can withstand the never-ending expansion.

Therefore, Lin Haijiang finally limited the Nanling-class battlecruisers to eight, and the two Imperial-class battleships built by Hainan Shipyard will serve as the main flagships of the first and second fleets of the Pacific Fleet, and these eight Nanling-class battlecruisers will be responsible for the task of breaking diplomatic relations in future naval battles, and the battleship formation composed of the Imperial Firmament-class battleships and four Zhenyuan-class battleships is the main force of the Empire's decisive battle at sea.

In Lin Haijiang's plan, the empire will have two firmament-class battleships and two empire-class battleships in the Pacific Fleet and the Indian Ocean Fleet in two years, four empire-class battleships, four Zhenyuan-class battleships, eight Nanling-class battlecruisers, and thirty-six glory-class heavy cruisers, and the remaining twenty-one will all be sold.

However, his Pacific Fleet in front of him can be said to be truly dominating the Pacific Ocean, so Lin Haijiang did not plan to let the navy sit idle and only cooperate with the army to engage in some petty landing operations, after all, the imperial navy he built is a blue-water navy, and the task of the navy is to expand the territory and declare sovereignty, not to take care of the family, so when Lin Haijiang was looking at the navy's application for building a naval base on Dongying Island and Guam, he wanted to remind the navy that it was supposed to be swallowed sooner or later, but it should be implemented step by step during the period. In other words, you should eat more elegantly! Moreover, it must be coordinated with the political offensive propaganda, and with the addition of severe military suppression, Lin Haijiang believes that his goal is completely possible to achieve.

Lin Haijiang hated the chain island shackles that the United States put on the Chinese Navy in later generations, so Lin Haijiang decided to order Zhanyang to lead part of the main force of the Pacific Fleet to the other side of the Pacific Ocean and occupy Hawaii, and at all costs and means, the Hawaiian Islands must become the inherent sovereign territory of the Chinese Empire in legal terms.

For this reason, Lin Haijiang summoned Zhanyang to the capital of the imperial head of state in Nanjing, and Zhanyang felt a little strange that the head of state asked him to lead a fleet to the ocean and occupy an island with almost no one and only a few natives on the doorstep of the Americans. In Zhanyang's view, the United States is still in the midst of a divided civil war, and even if the country ends the civil war, it is not an overnight thing to develop a navy, and the Hawaiian Islands are not of great strategic significance in Zhanyang's view? The Navy seems to have invested too much in this regard, especially with the Führer's insistence on building a new large fortified anchorage base in the Hawaiian Islands.

For this reason, Li Anmin, chief of the general staff, and others have also persuaded the head of state many times, but it seems that the effect is not great, so today Zhanyang made up his mind to persuade the head of state to abandon the idea of building a new fortress-type naval base in Hawaii.

Zhanyang got his wish and told Lin Haijiang all his ideas and opinions, Lin Haijiang also very patiently listened to Zhanyang's report and smiled slightly, led Zhanyang to the globe, and handed the file about the Hawaiian Islands investigated by the intelligence headquarters to Zhanyang and said, "How much do you know about the Hawaiian Islands?" ”

Zhan Yang was slightly stunned and said: "I don't know much, according to the Admiralty's battle plan, if the construction of an ocean-going fortress-type naval base in the Hawaiian Islands is equivalent to lengthening the overall strategic extension line of the Imperial Navy, with the strength of the Imperial Navy, it is indeed a bit beyond the reach of the whip, and there are great difficulties in supply and construction, and it is very difficult to invest limited naval funds in this kind of expansion of territory of great significance, Your Excellency, I think it is very unwise!" ”

Lin Haijiang smiled and nodded: "You're right, the Imperial Navy is indeed a little beyond the reach of the whip now, but as the deputy head of the Empire, you should see more of the Empire's strategic opportunities, we have to seize the strategic high point when the United States is still in the midst of a civil war, Zhanyang, do you think that in fifty or a hundred years, the warships will still be as fast as today?" If we occupy Hawaii today, Hawaii will lock up the United States like a giant lock, advanced weapons can have a faster and longer range, and the US Navy, which has lost its first opportunity, will never be able to become a blue-water navy in the Pacific Ocean, if the US Navy intends to dominate the ocean, then I'm sorry, go to the Atlantic Ocean to play! The entire Pacific Rim will become a paradise for the Imperial Navy, and your Pacific Fleet will become a true Pacific Fleet! ”

(To be continued)